Brasato al Merlot (braised beef with red wine sauce)

AUTHOR
Melissa Olsen
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3.1 11
COOK TIME
150 mins
TOTAL TIME
150 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 6
  • 300 g Carrots
  • 300 g Celeriac
  • 300 g Shallots
  • 3 Garlic cloves
  • 3 Tomatoes
  • 2 small twigs rosemary
  • 2-3 stem(s) Thyme
  • 1.5 kg Beef from the leg (e.g. hip or from the flower)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Oil
  • 375 ml Red wine (Merlot)
  • 1/2 l Beef broth (instant)
  • 1 TABLESPOON Tomato paste
  • 1-2 Cloves
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 1 1/2 l Milk
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated nutmeg
  • 250 g Polenta (corn semolina)

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean and wash the carrots and celery. Cut the carrots into thick slices and dice the celery roughly. Peel shallots and garlic. Cut the tomatoes crosswise and blanch them with boiling water and rinse with cold water. Skin tomatoes and cut into cubes.

  2. 2

    Wash the rosemary and thyme and put something aside for garnishing. Wash the beef, dab dry and rub with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a roasting pan and fry the meat all around. Finally add celery, carrots, shallots and garlic, fry briefly and deglaze with red wine and stock. Add tomato paste, tomatoes, clove, rosemary, thyme and bay leaf, bring to the boil, cover and braise over medium heat for about 2 hours. Turn the roast in between. For the polenta, boil up the milk with a little salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir in the corn semolina and let it swell for about 10 minutes on the switched off hotplate. Stir while doing so. Remove the roast from the stew stock and season the stock with salt and pepper.

  3. 3

    For the polenta, boil up the milk with a little salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir in the corn semolina and let it swell for about 10 minutes on the switched off hotplate. Stir while doing so. Remove the roast from the stew stock and season the stock with salt and pepper. Cut the roast into slices and put them back into the stock. Garnish with rosemary and thyme. Add polenta extra

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
720 kcal
CARBS
46 g
FATS
26 g
PROTEINS
66 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesheartyMeatBeef